ACF Gastroenterology with University of Liverpool

Liverpool University
  
  • Job title

Academic Clinical Fellow in Gastroenterology (CT1, CT2 or ST3 level)

 

  • Duration of post, and what happens at the end of the post if candidate successful or unsuccessful in obtaining a research fellowship

The ACF post will be for up to 3 years and during this time the fellow will be expected to apply to an external funding agency such as MRC, Wellcome Trust or CORE for a Clinical Research Training Fellowship. If successful in obtaining such a fellowship, the postholder will study for a PhD and then potentially progress to a Clinical Lecturer post that has also been available in this specialty in Mersey deanery. If applications for a Clinical Research Training Fellowship or any alternative source of funding to complete a PhD are unsuccessful, the postholder will transfer to the clinical higher specialist training scheme in Gastroenterology, as long as clinical aspects of training are progressing satisfactorily (as monitored by ARCPs etc).

 

  • Hospitals in which training will take place

Clinical training will take place in CT1/2 or ST4/5 at Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust. Clinical training in ST3 (for both CT1/2 or ST3 entry) will be at one of the DGHs in Cheshire and Merseyside. Clinical training during the later stages of specialist training (post ACF) will also take place at other hospitals within HENW (Mersey).

 

  • Research institutions in which training will take place

University of Liverpool (Gastroenterology Research Unit, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Institute of Translational Medicine).

 

  • Whether day release or block release will be used for protected research time

Block release involving periods of 3 months per annum.

 

  • Description of research component of programme

Gastroenterology research at the University of Liverpool concentrates on luminal GI diseases, particularly infections, inflammatory bowel diseases and cancer. The ACF will develop a research project in one of these subject areas. He/she will also have the opportunity to interact with the NIHR-funded Biomedical Research Unit in Pancreatic Digestive Diseases at Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust. Research projects will be supervised by one of the academic clinicians in the Department of Gastroenterology (Prof DM Pritchard, Prof C Probert) and potentially co-supervised by one of the non-clinical academic staff in the unit (Prof B Campbell, Prof LG Yu, Dr C Duckworth). Examples of potential areas of research include H. pylori associated gastric carcinogenesis, or aspects of GI neuroendocrine tumours (Prof Pritchard) and analysis of volatile organic chemicals to diagnose GI diseases (Prof Probert). The Unit has expertise in several different research methodologies and the project might therefore involve basic science, animal models or human clinical studies depending on the successful candidate and supervisors. The Department has a past record of successful applications for Clinical Research Fellowships from both the MRC and Wellcome Trust and publishes in Gastroenterology, Cancer Research, Oncogene and Gut and other well respected gastroenterology, infectious diseases and cell biology journals. The unit works in recently refurbished and well equipped laboratories and has access to all the multi-user facilities available around the campus.

 

  • Description of clinical training component of programme

This ACF can commence at CT1, CT2 or ST3. In each year of the ACF post, the successful candidate will have a 3 month research attachment.

 

For candidates entering at CT1/2, clinical training in CT1 and 2 will be at Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust and the successful candidate will have a 3 month attachment in Gastroenterology in addition to the 3 month research attachment in this specialty. There will be a further two 3 month attachments each year in other branches of internal medicine. There is some flexibility in these posts, but options are likely to include clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, rheumatology, infectious diseases and cardiology. For candidates who commence at CT1/2 and progress into ST3 and for candidates who start at ST3, clinical training in ST3 will be based at one of the seven district general hospitals in Merseyside involved in training Gastroenterology StRs. The appointee will commence endoscopic training during this placement. For candidates commencing at ST3, clinical training in ST4 and ST5 will take place at Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust. In each year of the post, the ACF will receive training in inpatient and outpatient gastroenterology and hepatology as well as endoscopy.  On call commitments will be in general medicine in CT1/CT2 and ST3 and in general medicine and gastroenterology in ST4/5. There is also a day release scheme for Medicine and Gastroenterology teaching and training (10 full teaching days per annum in Gastroenterology and 5 full teaching days per annum in Medicine).

 

The Gastroenterology directorate at Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust (Clinical director Dr P Richardson) has 17 medical consultants (including 2 clinical academics), 3 nurse consultants, a full complement of specialist registrars, junior medical staff and specialist nurses and is responsible for inpatients on 2 wards. Training opportunities are available in all aspects of inpatient and outpatient luminal and hepatobiliary gastroenterology. There are specialist clinics in inflammatory bowel disease and liver disease and MDTs for all types of GI cancer. The hospital houses one of the largest endoscopy units in the UK and provides the whole range of basic and advanced endoscopic techniques (including EUS, ERCP and capsule enteroscopy) as well as being a bowel cancer screening centre. The hospital also houses the Mersey School of Endoscopy (one of only 3 national endoscopy training centres) which provides regular training courses.

 

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  • Academic Programme Director name

Prof Mark Pritchard

The Henry Wellcome Laboratory

Nuffield Building

University of Liverpool

Crown St.

Liverpool

L69 3GE

England

Tel: +(0)151-794-5329 (secretary)

     +(0)151-794-5772 (office)

e-mail: mark.pritchard@liv.ac.uk

 

  • Clinical Programme Director name

Dr Beverly Oates

Consultant Gastroenterologist

Wirral University Teaching Hospital

beverly.oates@nhs.net

 

  • Programme contact for further information (phone or email)

Prof Mark Pritchard

The Henry Wellcome Laboratory

Nuffield Building

University of Liverpool

Crown St.

Liverpool

L69 3GE

England

Tel: +(0)151-794-5329 (secretary)

     +(0)151-794-5772 (office)

e-mail: mark.pritchard@liv.ac.uk

  

  • Deanery contact for further information (phone or email)

Claire Higgins / Claire McGovern

Specialty School Manager – Medicine

Health Education England, working across the North West

3rd Floor | 3 Piccadilly Place | Manchester | M1 3BN

claire.higgins@nw.hee.nhs.uk / claire.mcgovern@nw.hee.nhs.uk

 

LINK TO NIHR TCC WEBSITE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

http://www.nihrtcc.nhs.uk/intetacatrain/ 

    

  • Confirmation that the post attracts an NTN (a)

Yes

  

  

Applicants wishing to find out more about the relevant clinical training programme(s), should go to the Specialties Schools page and click on the link(s) for the relevant clinical training programme(s).

 

Last updated: 23/01/2017

 

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